Joshua 24:26 Cross References - Thomson

²⁶ And when he had written these words in the book of the laws of God, he took a great stone, and set it up under a fir tree which was over against the Lord,

¹⁸ So when Jacob arose in the morning he took the stone which he had there put at his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on the top of it; ¹⁹ and called the name of that place House of God. But the first name of this city was Oulamluz. ²⁰ And Jacob made a vow saying, If the Lord God will be with me and watch over me in the way in which I am going and give me bread to eat and raiment to clothe me ²¹ and bring me back safely to my father's house, The Lord shall be my God. And this stone which I have set up as a pillar shall be for a house of God. And of all that thou mayst give me I will set apart a tenth for thee.

⁴ So they gave Jacob the strange gods, which were in their hands and the ear rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them in the pine grove, which was in the country of the Sekimites and destroyed them even to this day.

⁸ And Debbora the nurse of Rebekka died and was buried under the Oak below Baithel. So Jacob called its name Oak of mourning.

⁴ Then Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. And rising early next morning Moses built an altar at the foot of the mount with twelve stones for the twelve tribes of Israel;

²⁴ Now when Moses had made an end of writing all the words of this law in a book, even to the close, ²⁵ he gave a charge to the Levites, who carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, ²⁶ Take this book of the law; and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God; and it shall be there for a witness against thee;

³ and give them orders. And you shall take up, out of the middle of the Jordan, twelve smooth stones, and carry them with you, and place them in your encampment, wherever you encamp to night. ⁴ So Joshua called out twelve men of eminent dignity from among the children of Israel, one from every tribe, ⁵ and said to them, Go on before me in the presence of the Lord, into the middle of the Jordan, and let every one take up thence a stone, and carry it on his shoulders, according to the number of the twelve tribes of Israel; ⁶ that they may be to you an everlasting memorial; that when thy son shall hereafter ask thee, saying, What are these stones to us? ⁷ thou mayst explain them to thy son, and say, Because the river Jordan dried up at the presence of the Ark of the covenant of the Lord of the whole earth, when it crossed it, therefore you shall have these stones for an everlasting memorial for the children of Israel. ⁸ Accordingly these sons of Israel did as the Lord commanded Joshua, and having taken up twelve stones, out of the midst of the Jordan, as the Lord commanded Joshua, when the Israelites had done crossing, they carried them with them to the place of encampment, and deposited them there; ⁹ and Joshua caused twelve other stones to be placed in the Jordan, in the very spot under the feet of the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and they are there at this day.

²⁰ and Joshua set up at Galgala, the twelve stones which he had taken out of the Jordan, ²¹ and said, When your children ask you, saying, What stones are these? ²² Tell your children that Israel crossed that Jordan on dry ground, ²³ the Lord our God having dried up the water of the Jordan before them, until they crossed over, as the Lord our God had done to the Red sea, which the Lord our God dried up before us, until we passed through it, ²⁴ that all the nations of the earth might know, that the power of the Lord is great, and that you may worship the Lord our God by every thing which you do.

⁶ Then all the Sychemites, and all the house of Bethmaalo, assembled and went and proclaimed Abimelech king, near the oak grove, which was invented for the assembling at Sychem.